DE Ee a an TRUMPED UP SEDITION CHARGE Sharkey sentenced to three years Marshall plan ‘stabilization of miser y, want’ By GINO BARDI capitalist newspapers for ban- ning the ACP, Sharkey declared: “The Communist party and the great militant unions are a mighty fortress of the people, a formidable opponent to the crazy cliques of warmongers, an invin- cible enemy of the wage-re- Laurence Louis Sharkey, gen- eral secretary of the Australian Communist party, was sentenc- ed to the maximum of three years imprisonment this week on. a. trumped-up. “sedition” charge, » —ROME A public works plan to absorb Italy’s two million unemployed was outlined by Giuseppe di Vittorio, general secretary of the Italian General Confederation of Labor (CGIL) at that organization’s second national Sharkey is alleged to have Said, in a telephone interview with the press last March, that “if Soviet forces in pursuit of “@ggressors enters Australia, Au- Stralian workers would welcome them,” Commenting on the persecu- tion of communists in Australia, and the frenzied demands of the ee ducers, and the very base of democracy. “That is the true reason for the frenzied shouts of the ene- mies of the people, for the un- ceasing demand to emasculate democracy by the outlawing and! persecution of the Communists; a criminal adventure doomed by history to abject failure.” L. L. SHARKEY Japan still has thought control --U.S. style now More than 1,000 Japanese teach- he engaged in union activity or Pected of left-wing “dangerous Cughts” have been dropped from ® school system, ostensibly as att of an economy measure to re- ice the number of “surplus” gov- fument employees. These layoffs owed the pattern in other Tanches of government employ- Ment .in which workers elected to} fovernment posts were ‘the first be dismissed. US. occupation authorities are *Ncouraging the “purge” of the Schoot system, for which they set aN example by ordering the arrest aay army trial of the noted liberal Tot. Oyama, who spent the war Years in the U.S. Oyama is charg- With “making statements detri- Mental to Allied aims.” 4 Under a Japanese enactment is- pd early this summer and also 'nctioned by General MacArthur, fachers in Japan may be discip- aoed for private political conversa- oak participating in public dis- Ssions or even allowing ‘“‘propa- Sanda songs” to be sung by their Pupils, Cansdione ca lethal Two young Canadians, among the many who have returned to build the new state of Israel are Dov Chetner, from Calgary, and Irene Springman, from Winnipeg, pictured here at the Beth Haaravah settlement. congress this month. Di Vittorio proposed that the gov- ernment create three national ad- ministrations: One to nationalize power monopolies and expand elec- tric power output; a second for land reclamation, irrigation and farm reform; and a third for mass construction of - housing, schools and hospitals. He said all Italy’s workers who are idle today are employable and the country has plenty of construction materials for such projects. Capital, Di Vittorio held, should}; come from landowners, from the profits of the electric power trusts and savings deposits. Calling for a national conference of technicians and experts to consider such a program, he promised that the CGIL would “give every possible assistance should the government pledge itself to this plan.” Di Vittorio’s 5hour report on CGIL activities outlined the im- mediate demands of Italian labor: (1) No more layoffs; (2) all-round wage increases, fixing of a mini- mum wage and improvement of present sliding wage scales; (3) a 40-hour week; (4) increased un- ‘employment payments and pen- sions; (5) ‘undisputed recognition of workers’ factory committees and joint management councils and (6) complete freedom to organize and strike. Di Vittorio scathingly criticiz- ed both the Marshall plan and the Italian government. The boasted ERP stabilization” of Italy, he declared, “is stabiliza- tion of ‘misery and unemploy- ment which we cannot accept.” -The De Gasperi government, he revealed, holds 10,000 Italian work- ers in jail for exercising their strike rights and proposes legisla- tion to hobble trade unions. “Po- lice methods will not domesticate the Italian working class,” Di Vit- -|torio said, warning that “there is a limit to endurance” and “the peo- ple will rise” if provoked too far. Moch defeated When Jules Moch, French So- cialist leader, attempted to form a government following collapse of Premier Henri Queuille’s cab- inet over the wage issue created by devaluation, France’s power- ful General Federation of Labor (CGT) called on workers to strike if he succeeded. As interior min- ister in the Queuille government, “Socialist” Moch used troops to break the French coal miners’ strike last winter. This week Moch admitted his failure to form a new government. —PARIS ‘SOCIALIST’ PRIME MINISTER FILLS JAILS WITH WORKERS ~ Nehru being groomed for Chiang’s role By ISRAEL EPSTEIN : Chiang Kai-shek, who boasted hat he would fight “to the death” ’Sainst the Communists, has fled . his insecure island stronghold Taiwan, and with the fall of leg a quarter of a century of ™upt Kuomintang rule over hina has ended. 4. 288d with this major defeat in XS ‘cold war” against world prog- *S8, Which neither American arms ®t American dollars could avert, ve imperialism is seeking another "dev to head its fight to halt . National liberation struggles in ey The man Wall Street has